When your youngster reaches about 66 pounds in weight...

August 5, 1985|By L.M. Boyd

When your youngster reaches about 66 pounds in weight, expect a growth spurt. That's when it usually starts, according to the medicos.

Fashionable women a century ago affected a drooping posture called ''the Grecian bend.'' Sandhogs who built the Brooklyn Bridge piers emerged quickly at day's end from the high pressure of their underwater caissons. They doubled over with terrible joint pains. They tried to laugh it off, and alluding to the ladies' stance, said they, too, had ''the bends.'' Nobody at the time understood the seriousness of the dreaded diver's ailment.

Q. Who invented that drink called the ''Bloody Mary''?

A. A bartender named Fernand Petiot. In 1921. Then, he worked at Harry's New York Bar in Paris. Later, as head mixmaster at the King Cole Bar in New York City, he introduced the drink to this country.

The longer her nose, the more beautiful the woman. That's what the Cuna Indians of Panama think. Many a woman there draws a black line from her forehead down to the tip of her nose to make her nose look longer. Remember this. If you meet a long-nosed woman who craves more admirers, you can tell her to go to Panama.

A horse isn't a horse unless it carries the man up a mountain. A man isn't a man unless he walks the horse down the mountain. Such is said in the Himalayas.

In Japan, I'm told, you may grin when the photographer is getting ready to take your picture, but not when it's time to snap the shot. Even a smile then is considered improper.

Maybe you've seen pictures of the stiff blue capes worn by the police of Paris. Lot of those capes are lined with lead weights. They're weapons of a sort, when swung at rioters.

If it's a perfect knuckle ball, it makes only half a revolution on its way to home plate.